[geeks] I feel dirty

[Will Mc Donald]

How about a Sparc machine with a SunPCI card?

There are also multi-"protocol" IM clients that'll run on Unix. I believe
Jabber will do ICQ, AIM and MSNMessenger among others. Though I may be
mistaken. But there are Unix clients out there.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martijn Pronk" <martijn at smartie.xs4all.nl>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:31 PM
Subject: [geeks] I feel dirty


> Hi all,
>
> So finally I turned to the dark side... I've used msn messenger...
> So I guess I lost some geek points.
> A little explaination why I turned to the dark side.
> My girlfriend lives about 160 miles away from me, and every day calling
> starts getting annoying, so she started annoying me with why I'm not
> using msn. I tell her "doesn't work on Solaris, FreeBSD or HP-UX, so
> I can't and won't use it". She says, that I have windows on my laptop
> so you can use it. Problem is, I boot windows only once every two weeks...
> While being in windows I thought I could always try it, so I did...
> And I actually liked it... Shit... now I have to spend too much time in
> windows.
>
> So, on to the wishlist for christmass:
> A nice Ti Powerbook;
> A loaded Sun Blade 1000;
> A couple of 100 Gb of storage and
> An Alpha UP2000 based machine with 2 processors and at least 2Gb ram...
>
> Martijn
>
> ps: How many geekpoints do you get when you actually work more
> on a HP 9000 715/80 than on a Sun SparcStation 4 and possibly even like
it?